Search Results - "Litos, M"
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High-efficiency acceleration of an electron beam in a plasma wakefield accelerator
Published in Nature (London) (06-11-2014)“…To develop plasma wakefield acceleration into a compact and affordable replacement for conventional accelerators, beams of charged particles must be…”
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Attosecond-Angstrom free-electron-laser towards the cold beam limit
Published in Nature communications (24-02-2023)“…Electron beam quality is paramount for X-ray pulse production in free-electron-lasers (FELs). State-of-the-art linear accelerators (linacs) can deliver…”
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Multi-gigaelectronvolt acceleration of positrons in a self-loaded plasma wakefield
Published in Nature (London) (27-08-2015)“…A particle accelerator that is two orders of magnitude more efficient than conventional radio-frequency accelerators is described in which positrons (rather…”
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Dissipation of electron-beam-driven plasma wakes
Published in Nature communications (21-09-2020)“…Metre-scale plasma wakefield accelerators have imparted energy gain approaching 10 gigaelectronvolts to single nano-Coulomb electron bunches. To reach useful…”
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Generation and acceleration of electron bunches from a plasma photocathode
Published in Nature physics (01-11-2019)“…Plasma waves generated in the wake of intense, relativistic laser 1 , 2 or particle beams 3 , 4 can accelerate electron bunches to gigaelectronvolt energies in…”
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Beam emittance preservation using Gaussian density ramps in a beam-driven plasma wakefield accelerator
Published in Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series A: Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences (12-08-2019)“…A current challenge that is facing the plasma wakefield accelerator (PWFA) community is transverse beam emittance preservation. This can be achieved by…”
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Acceleration of a trailing positron bunch in a plasma wakefield accelerator
Published in Scientific reports (27-10-2017)“…High gradients of energy gain and high energy efficiency are necessary parameters for compact, cost-efficient and high-energy particle colliders. Plasma…”
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Measurement of Transverse Wakefields Induced by a Misaligned Positron Bunch in a Hollow Channel Plasma Accelerator
Published in Physical review letters (23-03-2018)“…Hollow channel plasma wakefield acceleration is a proposed method to provide high acceleration gradients for electrons and positrons alike: a key to future…”
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Transverse beam dynamics in a plasma density ramp
Published in Physical review. Accelerators and beams (30-04-2019)“…An electron beam experiences chromatic emittance growth in a plasma-based accelerator if it is not matched to the focusing force in the plasma wake. A ramped…”
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High-field plasma acceleration in a high-ionization-potential gas
Published in Nature communications (17-06-2016)“…Plasma accelerators driven by particle beams are a very promising future accelerator technology as they can sustain high accelerating fields over long…”
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Self-mapping the longitudinal field structure of a nonlinear plasma accelerator cavity
Published in Nature communications (16-08-2016)“…The preservation of emittance of the accelerating beam is the next challenge for plasma-based accelerators envisioned for future light sources and colliders…”
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Laser-ionized, beam-driven, underdense, passive thin plasma lens
Published in Physical review. Accelerators and beams (07-11-2019)“…We present a laser-ionized, beam-driven, passive thin plasma lens that operates in the nonlinear blowout regime. This thin plasma lens provides axisymmetric…”
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Betatron radiation and emittance growth in plasma wakefield accelerators
Published in Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series A: Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences (12-08-2019)“…Beam-driven plasma wakefield acceleration (PWFA) has demonstrated significant progress during the past two decades of research. The new Facility for Advanced…”
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Plasma photonic spatiotemporal synchronization of relativistic electron and laser beams
Published in Physical review. Accelerators and beams (01-05-2022)“…We present an ultracompact plasma-based method to measure spatial and temporal concurrence of intense electron and laser beams nonintrusively at their…”
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Underdense plasma lens with a transverse density gradient
Published in Physical review. Accelerators and beams (01-03-2023)“…We explore the implications of a transverse density gradient on the performance of an underdense plasma lens and nonlinear plasma-based accelerator. Transverse…”
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Producing multi-coloured bunches through beam-induced ionization injection in plasma wakefield accelerator
Published in Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series A: Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences (12-08-2019)“…This paper discusses the properties of electron beams formed in plasma wakefield accelerators through ionization injection. In particular, the potential for…”
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Long-range attraction of an ultrarelativistic electron beam by a column of neutral plasma
Published in New journal of physics (01-10-2016)“…We report on the experimental observation of the attraction of a beam of ultrarelativistic electrons towards a column of neutral plasma. In experiments…”
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Spatiotemporal dynamics of ultrarelativistic beam-plasma instabilities
Published in Physical review research (02-05-2022)“…An electron or electron-positron beam streaming through a plasma is notoriously prone to microinstabilities. For a dilute ultrarelativistic infinite beam, the…”
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Wakefield generation in hydrogen and lithium plasmas at FACET-II: Diagnostics and first beam-plasma interaction results
Published in Physical review. Accelerators and beams (24-05-2024)“…Plasma wakefield acceleration provides ultrahigh acceleration gradients of tens of GeV/m, providing a novel path toward efficient, compact, TeV-scale linear…”
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Beam loading by distributed injection of electrons in a plasma wakefield accelerator
Published in Physical review letters (17-01-2014)“…We show through experiments and supporting simulations that propagation of a highly relativistic and dense electron bunch through a plasma can lead to…”
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